David Dupell
Mart Doyle
Flash Research Assignment #5
October 19, 2012
Google Apps for Business
Collaboration is becoming increasingly important for our company to deal with today’s
complex business problems. Our organization has an opportunity to increase productivity and
revenue by investing in Google Apps for Business. Google Apps for Business is a cloud-based
messaging and collaboration platform that includes mail, calendar, IM, and Web-based
collaborative documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and sites. Investing in Google Apps for
Business will allow our company to collaborate more efficiently and easily with manufacturers
and customers.
Google Apps for Business allows employees to improve communication with suppliers
and customers. This collaboration platform allows employees to work through a web browser.
Users have a Google account and can access word-processing, calendar, chat, email, and various
other Google collaborative tools. Google Apps for Business centralizes content and files on the
web, allowing employees across the company to access the same business information from
many different locations. Also, it maintains a document as a file and allows authorized users to
see or edit the document while keeping track of all the changes to the document and who made
them. Each file has an owner or creator who determines who can access the file. When a file is
complete it can be published, which gives it a unique URL for employees to access.
Additionally, employees can communicate through instant messaging and email.
Investing in Google Apps for business will allow our company to increase productivity
by decreasing the amount of time it takes employees to access information. Also, it will improve
the company’s communication with suppliers and customers. There is no fixed cost for
implementing Google Apps for Business within our company. The cost is directly based off the
amount of users and will cost approximately $50 a user per year. This platform will create a
collaborative environment where our company can work with our suppliers and customers as an
integrated team.
Works Cited
"Apps for Business." Pricing Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2012. <http://www.google.co
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Van Metre, Emily. Measuring The Total Economic Impact Of Google Apps. Rep. Jon Erickson,
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